My House in Umbria
United Kingdom 2004, 106 mins
Director: Richard Loncraine
Starring: Chris Cooper, Maggie Smith, Timothy Spall, Ronnie Barker
Director: Richard Loncraine
Starring: Chris Cooper, Maggie Smith, Timothy Spall, Ronnie Barker
Adapted from William Trevor’s novella of the same name.
Dame Maggie Smith (HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS) stars as Mrs Ella Delahunty, a British romance novelist living in Italy.
While on a shopping excursion to Milan, Ella barely survives a terrorist train bombing.
Though she recovers fairly rapidly from her ordeal, three others - a German journalist, a British general and a traumatized orphan girl - still bear profound physical and emotional wounds.
In the spirit of democracy and compassion, the plucky Mrs Delahunty invites her fellow survivors to recuperate at her lavish Italian estate.
This ersatz family gets along famously - at least until the arrival of the orphan’s priggish uncle, American entomologist Tom Riversmith (Chris Cooper, ADAPTATION), who strongly disapproves of Mrs Delahunty’s carefree lifestyle.
Making sumptuous use of locations in Tuscany and Rome, Richard Loncraine’s (RICHARD III) MY HOUSE IN UMBRIA is a stylishly crafted drama that also delivers a number of moving and rather telling moral insights.
Dame Maggie Smith is of course wonderful in the central role.
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